Labour relations

At the start of what is to be an electoral year in Germany, punctuated initially by regional elections in Saarland, Schleswig Holstein, and North Rhine-Westphalia, and later in September by the...

16 January 2017

Sweden: differing views on the country’s economic situation are influencing the 2017 negotiations

Unions and employers bodies agree that Sweden needs more flexibility in order to attract investors. Yet is this common declaration enough to come to a real agreement? On 21 December 2016...

16 January 2017

Greece: companies increasingly relying on food coupons

Greece is struggling to emerge from the financial crisis and many companies are looking for ways to cut costs. Thus an increasing number of workers are being remunerated with a selection of...

16 January 2017

Brazil: more than 3 million labor claims in 2016

President Temer telegraphed his labor reform intentions via the goal of tackling the ‘claims industry’; a reference to the weight of legislation surrounding labor relationships that he holds to be...

13 January 2017

United States: 19 States raise the Minimum Wage in 2017

While the federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25/hour since 2009 and the President elect’s administration’s intentions have still be made clear, minimum wage levels have been changing on the...

13 January 2017

Belgium: social partners secure a draft cross-industry agreement for the period 2017-2018

On the evening of 11/12 January Belgium’s social partners secured agreement over a draft cross-industry agreement (AIP) that sets a 1.1% wage margin for the next two years. Further negotiations...

12 January 2017

Italy: Constitutional Court rejects the referendum proposal over dismissals reform

On 11 January, Italy's Constitutional Court admitted two out of the three referenda that the central union body the Cgil had put forward, which aim to revise a number of the key measures in the...

12 January 2017

Italy: strike set for Friday 13 January in the textiles, fashion and footwear sectors

500,000 employees in the textiles-fashion, and leather-shoes sectors will on Friday 13 January stop work in a bid to renew their respective collective agreements that came to term on 31 March...

11 January 2017

Great Britain: mental health at work – a new priority for Theresa May

On 09 January, Theresa May, the UK Prime Minister, launched a major plan to both dispel the stigma surrounding mental health and to improve ‘mental health’, particularly within businesses. To this...

11 January 2017

France: new Renault three-year jobs agreement

Following in the steps of the CFE-CGC and the FO unions, on 09 January it was the turn of the CFDT to approve Renault’s three-year employment agreement which guarantees a certain level of business...

9 January 2017

BNP Paribas: European agreement on the prevention of work-related stress is signed

In a press release on 10 January, French banking group, BNP Paribas announced that a European agreement on the prevention of work-related stress had been signed with two European federations, the...

9 January 2017

News updates as of 10 January 2017

On the menu : United States/ automaker bosses under pressure, Spain/UGT union bares its teeth, Great Britain/ courts consider gig economy bike-delivery worker as an employee

9 January 2017

Argentina: foreign bank grouping lends support to salary agreement reached in December

After a month of negotiations, deadlocks, mediation by the labour ministry and go-slows, the decision was made to go back to an initial agreement on wage raises in the banking sector. The terms...

9 January 2017

Denmark: industry sector commences negotiations

On 5 January, negotiations got under way between Dansk Industri (DI) and Co-Industri, the Central Organisation of Industrial Employees in Denmark, which brings together nine unions including the...

9 January 2017

News updates as of 6 January 2017

On the menu : UK appoints first-ever ‘defender’ of employment law, merger of four main finish industry sector unions planned for 2017, Uber driver considered an employee by Swiss work accident...

4 January 2017

Would you like to know more about Valter Sanches, the new General Secretary of IndustriAll Global, the global trade union federation for industry?

An interview is available on the federation’s website, where Mr Sanches talks about his journey and what he has planned for the union.

4 January 2017

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